Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the courts to speed the process.

I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.

Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell the narrative that the problems of 2008 have been fixed.